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Aviator, Same, 1979, Harvest England, SHSP 4096
Found today at my favorite local record shop BRO Records St. Gallen. Something very special. Supergroup with Mick Rogers guitar (Manfred Mann's Earthband), Jack Lancaster sax, keyboards etc.(Blodwyn Pig), Clive Bunker drums (Jethro Tull, Blodwyn Pig, Steve Hillage) and John G. Perry bass (Caravan).
First class progressive rock with superb vocals. No fillers all winners. In fact it was not the right time for this one in 1979.
English Harvest pressing with superb dynamics.
A lost gem, thanx to Alex!
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Jerry Jeff Walker - s/t
(1972, Decca) '75 issue on MCA,* STERLING LH in the deadwax, mastered by Lee Hulko
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Jack Lancaster & Robin Lumley, Marscape, 1976, RSO England, 2394 170
Concerning my last post "Aviator":
Let's take a trip to mars with Jack Lancaster (Blodwyn Pig, Mick Abrahams Band), Robin Lumley (Brand X, Rod Argent, Anthony Phillips).
Powerful drumming by Phil Collins. Fine guitar work by John Goodsall (Brand X, Atomic Rooster).
An epic work. A forgotten progrock gem.
Listen to track A6 "Olympus Mons" with notice on back cover: "One of the largest volcanoes on mars "Olympus Mons" is 25 kilometers high.....
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Jack Lancaster & Robin Lumley, Peter And The Wolf, 1975, RSO England, 2479 167
Great animalistic fun at Trident Studios, London.
Stephane Grappelli, violin, is the cat (tracks A7, A10, B3).
This LP shows once again what great drummer Phil Collins was....
United here are all these superb guitar players: Garry (sic!) Moore, John Goodsall, Chris Spedding, Alvin Lee.
Funny progrock gem, based on Russian composer Serge Prokofiev's work.
Listen to Gary Moore on track B8 playing crybabywahwah-pedal-guitar in Prokofiev tune "Duck Escape".
With such a beautiful booklet as it was usual for seventies' LPs!
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Alvin Lee playing duet with Stephane Grappelli
Interesting discovery: Alvin Lee duelling with Stephane Grappelli.
Everything was possible in the 70ies, at least musically.
On 1975 album "Peter and the wolf" by Jack Lancaster & Robin Lumley: track A7, Serge Prokofiev's tune "Cat Dance", shows Alvin Lee playing a funny furious duet with Stephane Grappelli.
Nearly unbelievable.
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Various Artists, Electric Muse, 1975, Island/Transatlantic England, Folk 1001, Box4LP
Interesting collection: "The story of folk into rock".
4 Lps and a beautiful booklet with comprehensive infos in a box.
The booklet introduces with the following quotation: "Music is the electric soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents"-Ludwig Van Beethoven.
He was right?
Listen to Lp 2 track A3 Mingus' "Better git it in your soul" by Davey Graham 1965.
Music history!
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Was hoping to have this in honor of page 600, but it just came today. The cd that started this thread. Lily was here. Is the OP MikeM still with us?
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Joe Bonamassa, Live At The Greek Theatre, 2016, Provogue EU, PRD 7507 1, 3 LP
Joe Bonamassa is the man, who is able to collect and to play all these fancy guitars. Guitar models history!
Perfect fun with the songs of the 3 Blues Kings Freddie, Albert and BB.
Fantastic production, pressing on 180gr LPs and dynamics.
One for the desert island.
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Desert island
Will there exist current and hifi equipment on desert island?
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Various Artists, Jazz Poll Winners, 1960, Columbia USA, CS 8410
Listen to track B3, Charles Mingus' "Better git it in your soul" as the handclapping break in the middle of the track lifts off like a rocket.
It's simple handclapping!
But it sounds great.
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Elvis Presley, Way Down In The Jungle Room, 2016, RCA Legacy EU, 318 111, 2LP
Big fun down in the jungle room. Recorded February 2-8 1976/October 29-30 1976 by RCA Mobile Unit at Graceland.
Fine guitars by James Burton et al. and a great warm ripe and........... unique voice.
Superb mastering of newly mixed outtakes.
Superb dynamics on these two 140gr vinyl pressings.
40 years have passed since these recordings.
Exile on lonely street.......
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David Bromberg - Wanted Dead Or Alive
(1973, Columbia) -1A/-1A; Canadian pressing
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with Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Tracy Nelson, Bill Kreutzmann, and George Harrison on The Holdup
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David Bromberg Band, Reckless Abandon, 1977, Fantasy USA, F-9540
Track B5 "Nobody's fault but mine": Compare this track with the version Led Zeppelin made: which one do you like better?
This album has a strong horn section produced by Jim Price.
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Shirley Bassey, Live At The Talk Of The Town, 1970, UA England, UAS 29095
Big fat orchestra (Burt Rhodes) for a fantastic great voice.
This diamond is forever.
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Interesting collection: "The story of folk into rock".
4 Lps and a beautiful booklet with comprehensive infos in a box.
The booklet introduces with the following quotation: "Music is the electric soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents"-Ludwig Van Beethoven.
He was right?
Listen to Lp 2 track A3 Mingus' "Better git it in your soul" by Davey Graham 1965.
Music history!
wow, no kidding music history. Davey Graham inspired Bert Jansch and others in GB. cool info and posts.
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Deep Purple, In Concert '72, 2016, WB EU, TPSA 7518, 2LP, Bonus 7" Single
The complete 1972 BBC concert on 180gr vinyl.
Originally recorded at Paris Theatre on Regent Street in London for the BBC's "Sound of the seventies" radio programme on 9th March 1972.
Listen to the ingenious guitar solo intro of "Strange kind of woman". Difficult to play....
On bonus 7" single: interesting soundcheck version of "Maybe I'm a Leo", but the highlight is "Lazy"!
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Earl Bostic, 14 Hits, Gusto USA, 1977, King 5010X
Listen to A4 "Flamingo", Earl's biggest hit. It reached No 1 on Billboard's R'n'B charts and lasted for 20 weeks beginning in November 1951.
Great saxophonist!
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PFM, Cook, 1974, Manticore Germany, 88 544 IT / Manticore USA, MA6 502S1
PFM is the italian progrock group Premiata Forneria Marconi.
Recorded live at the Convocation Hall, Toronto University on August 22nd and at the Schaefer Central Park Music Festival, New York on August 31st, 1974.
There was a very interesting progrock scene in Italy in the 70ies.
Here is the possibility to compare a German pressing to a US pressing of this diabolic Italian special menu of snake cooking.
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Elvis Presley, A Valentine Gift For You, 1985, RCA USA, AFL1-5353
Happy Valentine's day with this one: 50th anniversary US issue in red vinyl.
Acceptable dynamics.
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The Miles Davis Septet and Quintet - Miles At Newport
(1967, Columbia) 1973 reissue; Holland pressing Orange CBS label
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Fraser & Debolt - Fraser & Debolt With Ian Guenther
(1970, Columbia)
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In reviewing this release, Mark Allan, of Allmusic, commented that "One of the many sad secrets of the popular music business is the way this little gem languished in obscurity. It should have been heard by millions, but disappeared at the height of psychedelia. Two years later, The Band found an audience with haunting tales of bygone rustic North American life with their seminal, self-titled second album. Widespread acclaim eluded the earlier outing by this unheralded Canadian trio. The songs, most written independently by Daisy DeBolt or Allan Fraser, are poetic."[2]
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Todd Rundgren - tiny demons
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Funkadelic - s/t
(1970, Westbound) -1C/-1C
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Nick Heyward, North Of A Miracle, 1983, Arista Germany, 205 765
Look at the fancy guitar on the label: it's the famous Hoefner Club 50 guitar played as Club 40 model by John Lennon in his early days as member of "The Silver Beatles".
Listen to the sax solo by Chris White and the powerful backing vocals on track B5 "Atlantic Monday", recorded live at Abbey Road.
Produced and engineered by Geoff Emerick.
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Eloy, Power And The Passion, 1975, Harvest Germany, 1C 062-29 602
Superb dynamics on famous German Harvest pressing.
Interesting Krauts-Prog-Rock, produced in Cologne, Germany.
Eloy with Frank Bornemann still is active in music business and also plays live concerts in 2017!!!
40 years old vinyl that shows a plenty of power and passion!
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Mike Bloomfield, Bloomfield, 1983, CBS Holland, 22164, 2LP
While preparing selfmade spaghetti by using the PastaMatic machine: listening to this retrospective including unreleased material. Music history!
One part of the spaghetti is made with eggs, the second one only with water. So let's taste the difference....... Gastronomy history!
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Lots of good ones here, Fritz, and many I've lost track of but are great to see again. Some duds and strange ones but that's the fun.
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The Jam, In The City, 1977, Polydor Germany, 2460 272
It was 40 years ago today when captain Weller told the band to play.......
The exuberant substitute for the tired WHO.
Listen to driving track A4 "I got by in time".
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Jade Warrior, Released, 1971, Vertigo UK, 6360 062
One of the finest hours of prog-jazz-rock:
6 panel fold out gimmick cover. Original famous vertigo label.
Listen to hypnotic jazzy jam on track B2 Barazinbar.
Those were the times for creative heads in music history, wasn't it?
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Rory Block, Mama's Blues, 1991, Zensor Germany, ZS 113
This woman can play the blues and the guitar!
Listen to track B3 Buddy Boy Hawkins' "Hawkins Blues".
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Hildegard Knef, Concert, 1968, Decca Stern Germany, SD 3000/1-2, 2LP
Big orchestra for Hilde.
Live recording with German Orchestra Kurt Edelhagen. Edelhagen was the "Jazzprofessor" of the "Staatliche Musikhochschule Köln" 1958-1963.
Hildegard Knef was the "female Sinatra" of Germany.
Big voice-great songs! Spotlight on the selfmade impressive lyrics in swinging compositions.
Listen to track B2 "Die Welt ging unter am Zürichsee bei 30 Grad im Schatten" on this superb pressing.
Don't forget one of the most characteristic German female voices ever: "Das Glück ist eine Frage der Bescheidenheit"......, isn't it?
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Dan Hicks And His Hot Licks, Striking It Rich, 1972, MCA USA, MCA 670
A discovery. Humorous gipsy-cowboy-jazz. Reissue 1980.
The funniest tracks are "O'Reilly at the bar" and "Skippy's farewell". In a world where mediocrity is rampant, Dan Hicks has style. And of course there are the constantly cruising "Lickettes", what a name, too much! (Cit: Ben Sidran on back cover notice).
Produced by Tommy LiPuma. Engineered by Bruce Botnick at Sunset Sound, L.A.
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Lol at the listing on Marscape album of Phil Collins as "Philip Collins". I can imagine Phil doing one of his weird faces as he says, "It's Philip to you now, mister..." :thmbsup:
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Elvis Presley, Elvis Sings The Blues, 1983, RCA Germany, NL 89169
Cit. notice on back cover: The original "Black charts", the "Harlem Hitparade" in early 1940's developed into the Top 15 of the "Race Records".
On June 17, 1949 a new name was coined: Rhythm And Blues (R&B).
From 1956-1963 Elvis had 28 Songs in it, all together it came to 227 weeks. 4 songs reached number 1.
In 1969 there was another change of name: "Soul Charts".
Listen to track A6 "Reconsider Baby": Boots Randolph plays 2 sax-solos in a row, a praiseworthy exception in Elvis-Songs.
Elvis never forgot the blues.......
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Paul Motian Trio - It Should've Happened A Long Time Ago
(1984, ECM) W. German pressing
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with Bill Frisell
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Larry Coryell - Return
(1979, Vanguard) WLP -1B/-1A
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the usual smoking guitar playing from Coryell, accompanied by the Brubeck sons on piano, bass and drums.
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Keola Beamer - Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar In The Real Old Style
(1972, Music Of Polynesia)
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I'm off on vacation tomorrow, will be away from the turntable for a week but I'm bringing some portable tunes, headphones and a USB headphone amp.
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Yma Sumac, Mambo!, 1954, Capitol USA, M 11892
1987 mono reissue. Very good US pressing.
A unique colorful voice with a wingspan of some octaves. Arranged by Billy May. All compositions by Moises Vivanco.
Don't forget to dance......
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Thin Lizzy, Live BBC Radio One, 1992, Windsong UK, WINLP 024, 2LP, emerald vinyl
Recorded live at Reading Festival August 1983.
Listen to track B1 "A night in the life of a blues singer".
Less than 3 years after this recording was made, Phil Lynott died.
Emerald.....
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Chico Hamilton, The Best Of, 1969, EMI Columbia Germany, 1C 052-90 812
Superb guitar tunes:
Gabor Szabo, guitar
Larry Coryell, guitar R.I.P
Listen to track B4 "Larry of Arabia", probably Larry Coryell's first recordings 1966.
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Jimmy Smith, I'm Goin' Git Myself Together, 1970, Verve Germany, 2304 020
Produced by Johnny Pate at T.T.G. Sound Studios, Hollywood Calif.
Great hammond groovin' with brass and voice by J.S.
Listen to the Archie's hit "Sugar Sugar" track B4 and Eric Burdon & War's 1970 hit "Spill the wine" B2.
Who plays the guitar on this one, anybody knows?? Sounds like John Tropea....
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Leon Redbone, No Regrets, 1988, Sugar Hill, SH 3761
Beer o' clock tunes from an extraordinary voice. A funny one.
Bela Fleck, banjo.
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Nancy Griffith, There's A Light Beyond These Woods, 1982, Philo US, PH 1097
This album was recorded live two-track, no overdubs, December 9,10,11, 1977 & January 3, 1978 at Pecan Street Studios, Austin, Texas.
1986 US Philo/Rounder reissue with different cover art.
Very good dynamics.
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Black Sabbath, Heaven And Hell, 1980, Vertigo UK, 9102 752
The best vocals ever for Black Sabbath were contributed by Ronnie James Dio.
Underrated.
Very good England pressing. Listen to epic title A4 "Heaven And Hell".
Dynamics? Not necessary......
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Megan McDonough - In The Megan Manner
(1971, Wooden Nickel) -1s / -1s; promo stickered cover
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with a young Larry Carlton, guitar; Sneaky Pete Kleinow, steel guitar. as suggested by the album art this is sensitive folk psych songwriting. recorded in Torrance, California. didn't expect string arrangements on some of the tracks, and didn't expect her beautiful singing voice. nice stuff. this LP must have been pressed by RCA - it's dynaflex light and flexible.
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The Kinks, Muswell Hillbillies, 1971, RCA USA, LSP-4644
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The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
(1971, RCA)
Same US Dynaflex pressing as shown here. Minor dynamics. The weight of the vinyl is only 93 gr. That's why most Dynaflex pressings have bumps. Didn't RCA realize this problem? Deadwax inscription: APRS 5984 2S. What about your issue?
Dynaflex vinyl with bumps only for the European market? No, this is Schizophrenia, because European music market wasn't an insignificant market at all, isn't it?????
There ain't no cure for Schizophrenia disease. The Kinks knew it. So listen to track A2 "Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues".
Does humor belong in music? Yessssss! Thanks to the Kinks. Life is easy......
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Dynaflex: a success story?
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Bill Monroe - Bluegrass Special
(1962, Decca)
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your love is colder than a foggy river
flowing over a heart of stone
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The Turtles - The Turtles Present The Battle Of The Bands
(1968, White Whale) Rhino issue from '86; kdisk
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Faces - Snakes And Ladders / Best Of The Faces
(1976, Warner Bros)
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It might get loud here.
I wish that I knew what I know now
When I was younger.
I wish that I knew what know now
When I was stronger
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Sandy Denny - The North Star Grassman And The Ravens
(1971, A&M) STERLING GF in the deadwax; mastered by Greg Fulginiti at Sterling Sound
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so nice, with unmistakable tasty lead guitar from Richard Thompson and John Wood production
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Nancy Griffith, Poet In My Window, 1978, Philo US, PH 1098
1985 US pressing by Philo records.
A voice pure and powerful as a mountain creek in spring.
Big boots.......
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Rita Coolidge, Fall Into Spring, 1974, AM Holland, AMLH 63627
We had a beautiful warm sunny day today here in Switzerland: we did really fall into spring.....
Listen to guitar playing by Dean Parks and track B6 the Charlie Rich song "I feel like going home"!
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Chuck Berry, The Chess Box, 1988, Chess MCA USA, CH6-80.001
R.I.P.
Duckwalk in heaven. Monkey business in hell.
This one is a 6 LP box with 71 songs including a very interesting 36 page booklet. Listen to bass playing by Willie Dixon on many tracks!
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Miles Davis - E.S.P.
(1965, Columbia) -1B/-1A machine stamped matrices
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some great personnel: "Herb" Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter.
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Keith Richards - Talk Is Cheap
(1988, Virgin) STERLING in the deadwax; mastering by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound
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recycled picture. with Waddy Watchell, Mick Taylor, Chuck Leavell, Bobby Keys, Ivan Neville, Sarah Dash, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker. Straightahead rock, and this record sounds better to me than a lot of the Stones 80s output.
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Keith Richards, Talk Is Cheap, 1988, Virgin Germany, 209 265-8
[QUOTE=SpeakerLabFan;403968]Keith Richards - Talk Is Cheap
(1988, Virgin) STERLING in the deadwax; mastering by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound
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recycled picture. with Waddy Watchell, Mick Taylor, Chuck Leavell, Bobby Keys, Ivan Neville, Sarah Dash, Bootsy Collins, Maceo Parker. Straightahead rock, and this record sounds better to me than a lot of the Stones 80s output.[/QUOTE.
Agree. Lovable rogue. No disco junk on this one. No falsetto voice.
Listen to guitar intro by Mick Taylor on track A4.
This is the german pressing.
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Doug Kershaw, Hot Diggidy Doug, 1989, BGM USA, 011589
From Nashville to his fans all over the world.
Listen to the duet with Fats Domino on track A6 "Toot toot".
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Little Feat, Let It Roll, 1988, WB Canada, 92 57501
This one gives me the drive while cooking for lunch: so peeling of potatoes goes on very quickly, let it roll....
First album without Lowell George after his death in 1979. Funny art work by Neon Park as usual.
Listen to superb lead vocals of new group member Craig Fuller (founding member of "Pure Prairie League").
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King Curtis And The Kingpins - King Size Soul
(1967, ATCO) Monarch pressing
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this was Booker T. style instrumentals except with some string arrangements - borderline boring until the Memphis Soul Stew track.
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Fraser & Debolt - Fraser & Debolt With Ian Guenther
(1970, Columbia)
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Canadian folk rock duo Allan Fraser and Daisy DeBolt, wonderful obscure record.
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Fairport Convention - s/t
(1968, Polydor) UK pressing, '75 reissue Polydor #2384 047
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part of a series of UK Polydor reissues in the mid 70s
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Strawbs, Nomadness, 1975, AM England, AMLH 68331
Rich in variety. Enjoyable work. Fine vocals by Cousins and Lambert.
If you like Genesis' "Nursery cryme", you will love this one. No madness...
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Crow - The Best Of
(1972, Amaret/MGM)
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Crow was a Minneapolis hard rock-based blues rock band, active from 1967-1972. interesting extended jams, one of the songs on side 1 includes a few chords from Jailhouse Rock. Evil Woman and "Cottage Cheese" are highlights, some prominent organ and bass playing on the latter. an interesting note on wiki:
"Evil Woman (Don’t Play Your Games With Me)" is a song written and recorded by Minneapolis-based band Crow that appeared on their 1969 album Crow Music. It was covered in 1970 by Black Sabbath and was released as their first single. The song also appeared on the Sabbath's debut album, Black Sabbath, later that year
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Mike Auldridge - Dobro
(1972, Takoma/Devi)
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w/ David Bromberg, Vassar Clements, Ben Eldridge. Liner notes by Norman Blake
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Crow - The Best Of
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Crow was a Minneapolis hard rock-based blues rock band, active from 1967-1972. interesting extended jams, one of the songs on side 1 includes a few chords from Jailhouse Rock. Evil Woman and "Cottage Cheese" are highlights, some prominent organ and bass playing on the latter. an interesting note on wiki:
"Evil Woman (Don’t Play Your Games With Me)" is a song written and recorded by Minneapolis-based band Crow that appeared on their 1969 album Crow Music. It was covered in 1970 by Black Sabbath and was released as their first single. The song also appeared on the Sabbath's debut album, Black Sabbath, later that year
Despite being Sabbath's first single, in America "Evil woman" was not included on debut album release. Anybody owns this original US issue with track "Wicked world" instead?
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Cowboy Junkies, The Trinity Session, 1988, RCA Germany, PL 88568
Schön! Reduced to the maximum.
Listen to Lou Reed song B3 "Sweet Jane". Better than the original?
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Hollies, Sing Hollies, 1969, Hansa Germany, 80 198 IT
This is the german issue. It was the first LP with original compositions without Graham Nash after "Words and music by Bob Dylan" with Dylan Songs only.
The US version was titled "He ain't heavy, he's my brother" and included the hit single by the same name while omitting tracks B2 "Soldiers Dilemma" and B3 "Marigold/Gloria Swansong".
Anybody who owns the US issue?
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Crusaders, Best Of, 1976, MCA Coral Germany, 0082.704
Listen to Larry Carlton's guitar playing on every track, especially on live track B3 Carole King's song "So far away".
Very good german pressing on 2 LP in foldcover.
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Billy Cobham, A Funky Thide Of Sings, 1975, Atlantic UK, K 50189
English Kinney pressing with rare grey/orange Atlantic label.
I bought this one because of John Scofield, guitar.
Skunk funk....
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Lynyrd Skynyrd, Street Survivors, 1977, MCA Holland, 5C 062-99593
Look at the front cover picture: some days after the release of Street Survivors, there was the famous horrible airplane crash.
3 members of the group were dead. The other members were the badly injured street/plane survivors. Premonition? Did they know a little?
Listen to the driving guitar solo intro of track A4 "I know a little".
40 years since then!
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The Meters, Good Old Funky Music, 1990, Special Delivery Rounder England, SPD 1039
That's true: what good and intelligent funk music from New Orleans. Produced by Allen Toussaint between 1968 and mid-70's.
Previously unreleased tracks.
Listen to the furious wah wah pedal guitar technique of Leo Nocentelli on track A5 "Pickin' and grinnin'".
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Frank Sinatra, She Shot Me Down, 1981, Reprise Germany, REP 54117
Guitar by Tony Mottola. Big dominating orchestra for melancholic Frank, because it was his last album for Reprise, the record label he had founded in 1960. So at last resulted these slow melancholy songs. That's why we nearly cannot hear any guitar chords by Tony Mottola.
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The Meters, Rejuvenation, 1974, Reprise Germany, 922 200-1
Produced by Allen Toussaint in New Orleans. Hey old folks, this is a rejuvenation.
Simple but pure funk. What else?